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Handbook of Adolescent Death and Bereavement

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In this comprehensive handbook, Charles Corr and David Balk improve our understanding of the challenges faced by adolescents when coping with death, dying, and bereavement.The volume is organized into three parts.Part I addresses specific issues involved in confrontations with death.Part II focuses on the role of bereavement.Part III explains specific therapeutic interventions for caregivers.The authors introduce us to adolescence as a special time in the human life cycle, a period quite separate from childhood and adulthood.They establish normative adolescents, and explain developmental tasks that are typical of early, middle, and late adolescence.

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Publication DateJanuary 01, 2004

Page Count420

Product FormPaperback / softback

ISBN 139780826192417

EISBN9780826192424

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Contributors Preface Part I. Death

Adolescents, Developmental Tasks, and Encounters with Death and Bereavement, David E. Balk and Charles A. Corr